The Dark Knight

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All sci-fi movies which have too many fantasy elements/unexplained phenomenae to classify properly as science fiction.

Latest news on the next installment of the Batman series. Looks like Heath Ledger is indeed cast in the role of The Joker. Still scratching my head over this one.

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Batman Sequel Is Dark Knight

Warner Brothers announced that its upcoming sequel to 2005's hit Batman Begins will be called The Dark Knight and will feature Heath Ledger as the Joker.

Christopher Nolan is set to direct from a script by Jonathan Nolan, based on a story by Christopher Nolan and David Goyer, who both wrote the screenplay for the previous film. Christian Bale, who played Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Begins, will again play the Caped Crusader. Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan will produce.

"I'm excited to continue the story we started with Batman Begins," Christopher Nolan said in a statement. "Our challenge in casting the Joker was to find an actor who is not just extraordinarily talented, but fearless. Watching Heath Ledger's interpretation of this iconic character taking on Christian Bale's Batman is going to be incredible." Production is set to begin on The Dark Knight in early 2007.

The Dark Knight appears to be an allusion to Frank Miller's groundbreaking 1986 graphic novel Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, which redefined the character with a darkly psychological take and paved the way for subsequent comic and film interpretations of him, including Tim Burton's gothic Batman film in 1989.

I just read FM's Dark Knight for the first time and really liked it. The Joker seems kind of urban sexual (leg's crossed, smoking cigarette, aloof, elegant, lipstick), I think is what they call it. I wonder if Heath Ledger will go that interpretation.

[EDIT]: I found this:

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Heath Ledger has revealed that his take on the Joker in the upcoming "Batman Begins" sequel will be far removed from Jack Nicholson's portrayal of the villainous character.

"It's definitely going to stump people," he told The Toronto Sun.

"I think it'll be more along the lines of how the Joker was meant to be in the comics, darker and more sinister... but it's obviously not going to be what Jack Nicholson did. It's going to be more nuanced and dark and more along the lines of 'A Clockwork Orange' kind of feel. Which is, I think, what the comic book was after: less about his laugh and more about his eyes."

The film, which has been officially titled "The Dark Knight", will be released in June 2008.